Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Reed v. State (2012), Arrington v. State (2009)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Mallory v. State · Head v. State · Renner v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the [evidence] itself would not constitute harmful error under the circumstances, then there is no reasonable probability that the trial lawyer’s failure to object to it affected the outcome of the case. Therefore, [appellant] has not made the requisite showing of prejudice resulting from defense counsel’s acquiescence in the impermissible [evidence].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“A party cannot during the trial ignore what he thinks to be an injustice, take his chance on a favorable verdict, and complain later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a prosecutor may not comment on an accused's pre-arrest silence or failure to come forward voluntarily, even if he chooses to testify”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.